1. Topics for Civics and Ethics Course Assignment (Group Work)
Conditions of the Assignment are working in group, instead of individual work. It needs the
synergy of the group members, towards contributing for the assignment together, in a
collaborative manner. As far as much of the topics are letting the students to be critical thinker,
debate among the group members is strongly encouraged, before writing the final paper to be
submitted. No one’s contribution should lag behind the contributions of the rest of the group
members. Specifically, students are expected to come up with :
 description of the topics under their assignment;
 Reviewing literatures(books, Newspaper, Journals, Internet Sites (except from
www.wikepedia.org) and so on)
 Apparent and implied examples related with the topics.
 The better prospects of the topics raised already( including solutions and
recommendations
 The submissions should be 3-4 pages long, maximum of 900 words.
 The due date of submission will be January 9th 2015
No Topic Assigned Group
1 The role of Civics & Ethics: expectations
in primary, high school and university
level education
2 The global trends of teaching civic
education
3 Social factors of Democracy
4 Political, Economic and Development al,
Social, Environmental, Cultural
Citizenship under FDRE constitution
5 The habit of hardworking
‘industriousness’ in Ethiopia
6 The habit of Saving in Ethiopia
7 The Role of State in economy: the
Ethiopian Experience
8 Formal & Informal Ways of influencing
decisions
9 Universal Suffrage
10 Open Mindedness in Ethiopia
11 The practice of Compromise in Ethiopia
12 Types of Federalism: and advantages &
disadvanatages
13 Types of Federalism: and advantages &
disadvanatages